(a) "I, Wesley Wu, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work."
(b) I used primarily two books to learn basic concepts of structural engineering:
- Ching, Frank, and Cassandra Adams. Building Construction Illustrated. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991. Print.
- Schueller, Wolfgang. The Vertical Building Structure. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990. Print.
My mentor also helped me teach me the concepts of some building structures.
(c) On my blog
(d) Most of my work was focused on working on structures, assigned by my mentor, on a software program called AutoCAD. The structures I designed were mostly related with earthquake resistance since my EQ is based on earthquakes.
Interpretive
Like I've said, most my work is based on designing on AutoCAD. The pictures with red writing are my mentor's structure. Basically when my mentor is drawing this structures, he's explaning each structure in detail to me and how these structures have an important role to a building. After he explains the structureas to me, I go on the computer and draw these structures on AutoCAD. Once I've think I've completed the design, I show my designs to my mentor to check my work. If he approves my design, then he will teach me something else which is usually another building structure or just showing how structural engineers calculate the measurements that deal with width or length for building structures. If he disapproves the design I have to keep working on the design until my mentor approves it. Usually at minimum it will take me 2-3 hours to finish one design on AutoCAD. Regularly, I spend 4-5 hours in trying to finish one design.
Applied
During my Lesson 2 Presentation, I used these structures (the pictures posted on this blog post) as details for part of my answer 1. For example, my answer 1, by creating a better foundation using Special Moment Restraint Frames (SMRF) with isolators, these pictures are parts of the SMRF. These pictures help represent why the SMRF works during earthquakes. The picture with the panel zone helps give the SMRF structure more ductility features because there's a plastic hinge in the intersection of the column and the beam. The Grade Beam detail give a more detailed approach of the contents beneath the grade slab, showing soil, bolts, and rebars supporting the grade slab. This independent component helped me show a more realistic approach by using realistic designs of my answer 1.
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